i echo commissioner keane's statement it is well done and helpful and seeing where we need to go one suggestion that i have is i know we don't have a formal committee on this commission but to the extent commissioners want to participate hopefully that will be welcomed by the staff i for example have those enforcement regulations have been near and dear to my heart maybe other commissioners you can reach out to them >> public comment? >> hello, i'm larry bush this time i'm speaking on behalf of friends of ethics we sent a letter outlining the number of concerns looking over this i want to add a post script it that on the calendar that would be helpful to the commission if in addition to the timeline of activities for the staff and commission you also included in here the timeline for political activities that is gong in the city at the same time sometimes i'll be seeing campaign financial reports that helps if you include that in june and september and november there's an election it is an important part of looking at our calendar secondly on the issue of travel and more disclosure i

. >> commissioner keane. >> yes. mr. chairman in light of the fact you don't want to be nominated for chair i nominate commissioner renne for chair. >> any other nominations for chair? okay hearing none public comment? >> commissioner ray heart for open government we need someone that will lead and i don't mean financial every time you try to find someone from illegally using money for illegal campaigns they'll find a way i'd like someone that makes an effort to do some of the things and you've neglect under the current lisp so such as enforcing the sunset ordinance people think they have a right to go to a public hearing and until the shut hits the fan and told they're not allowed to i have a list of 19 or they tried try to get public records and denied those by people that know under the law they have a requirement to provide it yet for 8 years i've been coming to theometers with lip service to our responsibility of enforcing the sunset ordinance like on tonight agenda one case from the sunset task force ion they've go

that motion passes 5 to zero congratulations commissioner renne elections for vice chair commissioner keane. >> yes. i'd like to nominate commissioner andrews. >> are there any other nominations for vice chair public comment. >> commissioners ray heart inform san francisco open heart i'm in favor of commissioner andrews to serve as vice chair i've gone through several times and looked at the video of the hearing that was held on my matter referred by the sunset ordinance task force and the only two people that asked questions were commissioner keane and commissioner andrews i said is there any way of using the audio video equipment without extend $42,000 and the city librarian lied to him is no other way all they had to do was take the slides i know they got them and included the private individuals like the friends the san francisco public library it tomatoes not commissioner andrews fault that i guess he did what most people do listened to the department heads and assumed he wouldn't lie especially on not television i say that without fear of contradiction it was proven commissioner andre

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kean and wish him many years ahead of good health and happiness. the united states of america owes him a significant debt of gratitude for all that he has done in service to the nation. thank you mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from alabama, ms. sewell, for five minutes. ms. sewell: thank you, mr. speaker. today i rise against the republican fiscal year 2016 budget resolution. this budget proposal would reduce critical economic investments and undermine growth in our jobs as well as its attempt to reduce the deficit on the backs of our students, our seniors, the low-income families and the american middle class. . our students after all, are our country's future. it abandons our students by making cuts to college aid, research, job training and innovation. it also abandons our most vulnerable. it would end medicare as we know it and make harmful changes to medicaid threatening our seniors across this country. . the 2016 republican proposal als

by the sunset ordinance task force and the only two people that asked questions were commissioner keane and commissioner andrews i said is there any way of using the audio video equipment without extend $42,000 and the city librarian lied to him is no other way all they had to do was take the slides i know they got them and included the private individuals like the friends the san francisco public library it tomatoes not commissioner andrews fault that i guess he did what most people do listened to the department heads and assumed he wouldn't lie especially on not television i say that without fear of contradiction it was proven commissioner andrews has shown a on several occasions to ask questions that really need to be asked i would have been controvertible with commissioner keane because he's a great advocate for from the expression and first amendment rights i've yet to see that take real effect but again commissioner andrews i think will serve as vice chair very effectively and i at least have some hope that he will take into account that the issues of the public i will point out t

francisco ethics commission february 23, 2015, calling the roll arrest commissioner hayon commissioner keane commissioner andrews and chair commissioner hur has been excused item 2 on the agenda public comment on matters powering or not appearing on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the ethics commission anyone have my public comments before we move to the next item hearing none i'll turn to the third item a presentation by san francisco stanford university students regarding their campaign finance project for the 2014 election and welcome and look forward to our presentation. >> thank you. >> you can come up. >> yeah. >> steven macy the technical officer want to take a moment to welcome christopher's and jeffrey they've been interning from the b matters of admission project at stanford university and look at the laws of the data we collect and data and visiontion software we use in the office in the past two months able to produce data visualization on the november 2014 election i don't want to take away if from their presentation but the work they've been able to do in the past two mon

. >> commissioner keane. >> when is this going to be online and use be able i did public. >> within two or three weeks i'll say you did visuals really make it easy for anyone to understand and that is so powerful so your work is greatly appreciated and fantastic. >> thank you and i also wanted to thank the students for moving this forward. >> commissioner andrews. >> christen and jeffrey this is wonderful this helps me, i'm visible what was interesting when you got to the work cloud and their maybe more than that will or that will be shared or analyzed you can see clearly a benefit to spending money on a campaign i wanted to see if there's a more strict definition around the work cloud the may the record show o more education around a person's reaching bigger group some campaigns if need a lot of money but got grammar education or the word or the concept uses more in i were to driving a campaign that was around a particular issue i'd time to know is it better to educate and direct my dollars around the creation point or go down another road of ads or creating an argument to it or what i

. >> any other questions commissioner keane. >> when supervisor farrell hired chris lee he hired chris lee as his committees campaign consultant i hired him right. >> as far as i know. >> he hired him as his campaign consultant his campaign consultant channels money from another committee that has - channels money and activities supporting supervisor farrell from another committee during the course of the campaign in the amount of $190,000 that's was the fcc has found done by the committee that chris lee is coordinating essentially he's the one doing it what supervisor farrell whether he's the one responsible if the long run for the activity of the campaign consultant he can't say he didn't know what he's doing by funneling campaign contributions to my campaign in the form of others activity i didn't personally know that it that's not the law is it. >> with with all due respect your exaggerating what we found was one e-mail to the committee with a contributor west that was public he sent a second e-mail to the committee with kind of the hall of a committee and eventually give the commi

. >> my - and commissioner keane yes madam chair mr. mr. chair, i think it best if we took them separately and discussed them each on if decided by us we want to go ahead on each of them because they're very discrete and in different ways we likely want to make a motion regarding it for example, like the first one is something on the ballot and discuss that and do or not do whatever and move to the second one taking them all 6 together would be hard to make decisions between them what we want or not want to do. >> okay. any of the other commissioners have thoughts. >> i agree with our suggestion i think we'll take them one at a time and i'll propose we have the commission discuss and make a vote who they want to say that's something they want to have done and prioritize because maybe we can't do all 6 but after saying we want to do all 6 let's put priority. >> great, thank you okay. so the first proposed idea would be applying the city contribution limits and bands to candidate control committees not associated with the candidate election a

joining us now is a vice chief of staff military analyst general jack keane. good to have you with us. ashton carter falling in line with the presidents thinking now. >> yes i think he ran smack into it. congressional testimony has to be approved in the white house government officials are providing that. i'm certain that they took issue with that testimony as they had in it his comments last week where he didn't believe the three-year was necessary. so here we are. he has already changed his view points taking a change for the worse. this thing makes no sense. >> there is so little that seems to make sense of the decisions taken by the administration when it comes to the islamic state and when it comes to iran. we are witnessing the assault by the iranian led forces two thirds as best we understand that. they are about to get to the city center and about to get it done. one of the implementations what are they? >> we have a media concern as to how the militia is going to behave because in the past they have committed genocide and it burned down peoples homes.

general jack keane is here to weigh-in. and howie kurtz is here with how the media is handling this story. but we begin with trace gallagher on how this all came to pass. >> megyn, after finishing 16 weeks of training at ft. bening, georgia bowe bergdahl's troop arrived near the border of pakistan by march of 2009. by early june bergdahl was sending e-mails to his parents calling america "disgusting," even sending home boxes of his books and uniform. on june 30th he walked away from his base and was captured by the taliban. at first his status was unknown. then he was declared missing captured. two weeks later the taliban released a video featuring bergdahl who claimed he was captured after lagging behind during a patrol. >> it's a clear violation of international law to use prisoners for propaganda purposes. and that's in keeping with the way taliban operates. of course we're very concerned for his safety. we're doing everything we can to get him back to his unit, to his family unharmed. >> reporter: military members claim

we showed it to general keane a little while ago.he spread which he says was sort of aspirational this map at this point. but those aspirations seem within reach do they not? >> some of them certainly are. the linkage between boko haram which is a very large terror organizations and operations they're conducting in the west african area just lethal because they have killed at least 11,000 people we know of. what clearly isis has in mind is trying to at least give the impression of a global reach. al-baghdadi advertises himself as the savior of sunni islam and apparently he wants to take it beyond simply arab sunni islam. for example the force attacking tikrit iranian, organized trained and led. he is advertising what he is doing is saving sign anything from shiites and particularly persians. al shai organization which is run by iranians. about a third of the entire force is islamic revolutionary guard corps volunteers from iran and shiites from the rest of the world. what is happening isis has metastasize ad good about it. it is spre

william randolph hearst the citizen keane of american newspapers was an isolationist. so was joe kennedy and so was lindburg. and there were also wicked antisemites like henry ford, who used to issue a daily newspaper, praising isolationism through all of his -- ford distribution deals so he would actually pick one up at the showroom spiteful stuff about how the jews were running the country down, and then there were people ancillary people like walt disney also antisemitic, person who was welcomed to hollywood when all of the other hollywood moguls passed on that one. and dealing with these personalities it should be. ed, lest we forget, history is made up of personalities and strong personalities can make an enormous difference. sure there are big movements, socioeconomic movements that take place that defined all events but in the case of most stories, if you have someone as strong as fdr or churchill you can make a difference. henry kissinger once asked chou en-lai if it had not been john f. kennedy assassinated but nikita khrushchev what difference would make to t

i don't mean to compare myself with people like edmund kean. was a ways reading books about actors. and i would read about edmund kean, who came at a time when he came from a whole other climate. a whole other world. and when he went on stage, it was new. and i think there was something about the roles i played in this situation and the times we are in and they connected and i got lucky. and it's been this thing all my life. i have to say it, you have heard a lot, but it is true, it is luck. it is timing. i am member saying once to someone, we are all together and actors. at the same time, you're doing so well. all this stuff, you wanted it. and this guy said al, why you? why not me? i want this stuff. i said yeah. you wanted it, but i had to have it. charlie: oh, wow. had to have it. pacino: that's an interesting distinction. one doesn't know. i am just mouthing now, because i don't know. charlie: you had to have it. pacino: believe it or not, i could tell it when somebody -- i knew at some point, this was my time. i never knew it would turn i

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. >> commissioner keane yes mr. st. country can you tell us the making of the materials available in the images of san francisco. >> thank you. i meant to we have gone through someone from the language access office met with us we've glutton the pertinent documents we've identified the documents wore to translate and identified the cost and we're working with them to set up a t timetable so hook up w us we can cover most of the initial costs but i'm anticipating we modestly mate ask for a small supplemental appropriation the estimates i have to get permission from the mayor's office budget office and controller's office to transfer fund and see how much we have left we anticipate to begin starting the translations this year and possible not all done by the end of the by the end of the year a lot of our document are updated particularly the maudlin and guides make sure we have a proprietorship we only have to update the sections rather than redo the whole thing this is underway. >> thank you thank you item 11 items for f

work i'm happy to work with the starch we'll put that together before we reach that and commissioner keane maybe correct what may happen at the board we need to take a look at the evidence and facts arrest i suppose the first step graft something like that proposed language you want the public to adopt for the purpose of limiting the contribution to the committees correct. >> that's correct i mean we'll start off with proposed language that maybe tweaked or amended as we go through the legislation record process you know the one other time i'm aware of the noiths put it on the ballot was in respect to proposition o that established the city's financial program about putting on the before the voters themselves to the noiths did it after having a long series of meetings about what that public finance program should look like there's various proposals you know put forth and people notified to speak to the commission about the best way to design it a lot of things happy before that mermaid the ballot and, of course was adopted by the public. >> any other comments commissioners any public comme

we have senator tom kean in the studio to talk about a solution you propose.that it's a hybrid reform bill. it's the most workable sangyo taking governor cuomo and governor christie's port reforms along with the oversight provision. put that into plain speak for us and no and let us know what it means. >> what it means is we are getting real transparency to the port authority. taxpayers are paying too much. the port authority focuses too much on non-transportation responsibilities. my legislation which is the only one that passed both legislatures and signed by both governor simply says the port authority should be a transportation focused place. get rid of the cash -- are the last 20 years used for multiple purposes. focus first and foremost on making sure enough efficiency so you don't have games played on either side of the river and on the other side of proposal which is a legislative proposal get new oversight to taxpayers and legislators in both states have confidence that the agency is truly being reform. >> what was your reaction to proposing an 11 bil

that ludicrous but again we hear the explanation that was a person and i'll go back to commissioner keane's point you hire someone you're responsible inform war they do or not your answerable and he took the measures to see this person didn't gadget in illegal activity and saying i didn't know he was doing it to tell us the whole responsibility thing on its head if you hire someone and they do something illegal on our on behalf accountable and something that is familiar with supervisor farrell he never comes himself to those kinds of hearing why isn't he hear to openly and honestly answer the questions instead, he send a representative that can't answer the questions i'll say in my opinion because he didn't want to be open on television being forced to be in a situation to being asked those questions he sends a representative to try to give you a song and dance and lastly this letter from the legal firm if sacramento answers all the statements that mr. sutton made as sxhairn did the stimthsdz in effect and basically an admission of guilt >> good evening charles bell i've been corresponding

sudden i had no in case a year and a half later i did a 2 hundred thousand build out and commissioner keane when you had a built out i'm a c m t c establishment when you had a built out the the planning department send notification with or without the appointment you don't need the conditional use to send out the notification it was really all i have to say it will kill small businesses. >> this is my brother and manager we have a family run business they're leaving san francisco that is making it harder to stay in town. >> hi good afternoon. i'm kathy a visitor from san raphel he will i'm c a mc approved i have my license through the city of san rap we'll coming up for zoning right now i wanted to speak on behalf of sole proprietor exemption as 09 people said our profit margins are small, in fact i went into the business and became that by that alone i'm i'll not be linked to the sex trafficking industry my clients come from trademarks and doctors and others i know i have 2 thousand hours of education the bottom line t is 85 hours i wish there was a way that those of us who are in this sor